In this miscellany of villainy, our unconventional sleuth must contend with misbehaving debutantes, sinister smuggling rings, a Dowager Countess whos not all that she seems, an SOS message daubed in lipstick, a beleaguered New York socialite, and an elderly Egyptologist indulging in some bad behaviour...
Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman. At first Campion is unwilling to get involved, but he is forced to bring his powers of protection to bear on the case, and to solve not only the mystery of the murdered woman but also the alarming disappearance of some well-known art treasures. Also available from Vintage in the Albert Campion series: Mystery Mile. Sweet Danger. Flowers for the Judge. The Case of Late Pig. The Fashion in Shrouds. Traitor's Purse. The Tiger in the Smoke.
Averna es un minúsculo y pintoresco principado medieval situado a orillas del Adriático. Cuando, tras un terremoto, se descubren en el lugar reservas de petróleo, el Foreign Office contrata al excéntrico Albert Campion para intentar probar que la tierra pertenece a una familia aristocratica inglesa que desde hace años se consideraba extinguida. Pero tras el rastro de los documentos estan tambien un financiero sin escrupulos y unos cuantos matones a sueldo. Campion, acompañado de tres camaradas tan peculiares como el y de su fiel sirviente Magersfontein Lugg, un antiguo ladron dado a los metodos expeditivos, viaja a la aldea de Pontisbrigh para intentar desentrañar el misterio y de paso toparse con adolescentes precoces y cadaveres por doquier.
Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, it now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter - and someone in the village is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves.
In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own - involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess - that must also be brought to light by Campions investigations. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light. Private detective Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYNestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly - and suspiciously - become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is given the task of recovering the long-missing proofs of ownership.
Agatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the true queen of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now hes a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the true queen of the classic murder mystery?Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the true queen of the classic murder mystery?In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer.
Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion - but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancee, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together while the very fate of England is at stake. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
After another body, private detective Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth... Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actr
Londres está en peligro. Entre la espesa niebla de noviembre se esconde Jack Havoc, «el Tigre», un violento asesino acabado de salir de la cárcel para espanto de las autoridades y la población civil.
When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some complex family dynamics, to solve the case.
Private detective Albert Campions glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassands fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.
